Five Tanka Poems
...1. She gives him the push
when he says sex starving
is a greater sin
than fasting for his long life
or praying to the lingam*
*an image of Shiva
2. after a tiff
lying und...
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Categories:
tanka poems, bird, body, moon, sin,
Form: Tanka
Death When Descends
...Slowly descends pall of death
And dies the old faith,
Life gasps for last of life-breath,
Where a green meadow
Once was, rules death’s dark shadow.
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Categories:
tanka poems, death, green,
Form: Tanka
String of Haiku
...HEATWAVE
a blazing furnace
fingers of heat touch my skin
high factor sun cream.
LANGUOR
languorous in heat
perspiration covers me
dreaming of cool breeze.
SUN
straw hat ...
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Categories:
tanka poems, summer, sun,
Form: Haiku
Tanka Poetry
...My Tanka poems
Are far sweeter than the rest
By the heavens blest.
For the heavens love to hear
These sweet verses loud and clear.
For the Gods would hark
In daylight and in the dark
Its rhy...
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Categories:
tanka poems, poetry,
Form: Tanka
Three Tanka Strung Poems
...Caterwauling winds
Force the once settled landfills far
Soil erosion starts
Settling so far out of bounds
To then dwindle down some again!
….didee © TANKA
Earth imploding ‘noted’
creati...
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Categories:
tanka poems, creation, environment, moon, morning,
Form: Tanka
'family'Tanka
...my puppy and wolves
cat - tiger, rosewood n rose
gourd and large melon
I and master poet Basho
same genetic family
contest entry for Tanka poems
by Amy Green...
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Categories:
tanka poems, relationship,
Form: Tanka